Full Year 2025 Fuchs Se Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Fuchs SE (FUPBY) achieved a new all-time high in sales, reaching EUR3.6 billion in 2025, reflecting both organic and external growth.
- The company reported a strong free cash flow before acquisitions of EUR316 million, up by 3% compared to the previous year.
- Earnings per share increased by 2% year-over-year, demonstrating solid financial performance.
- Fuchs SE (FUPBY) maintained a progressive dividend policy, proposing a dividend increase for the 24th consecutive year.
- The company successfully managed cost discipline, resulting in an EBIT of EUR435 million, slightly above the previous year, and an EBIT margin of 12.2%.
- Fuchs SE (FUPBY) faced significant currency headwinds, negatively impacting top-line growth by 2%.
- The Americas region experienced an 18% decline in EBIT year-over-year, primarily due to negative mix effects and higher costs.
- The company anticipates challenges in raw material availability due to geopolitical tensions, particularly affecting oil and petrochemical supply chains.
- Functional costs rose by 4% year-on-year, driven by additional costs from recent acquisitions and inflation-related salary increases.
- The outlook for 2026 includes potential macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties, which could impact sales and earnings growth.
Thank you, Nadia. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is Andreas Schaller speaking. On behalf of FUCHS SE, I wish you a very warm welcome to today's conference call on the annual results of 2025 and the outlook for 2026.
With me on the call today is our CEO, Stefan Fuchs; and our CFO, Esma Saglik. As always, Esma and Stefan will run you through the presentation, which is then followed by a Q&A session. All the documents for this call are available on our homepage, and we assume that you have them in front of you. Please be also aware of our disclaimer on the last page of our presentation.
And now, it's my pleasure to hand over the call to Stefan for some introductory remarks. Please go ahead, Stefan.
Yes. Hello also from my side with the best regards from Sunny Mannheim. So I don't know where you are, but we have a lovely day here. I think Esma and I will present you very solid figures for the
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